The Eleventh Circuit’s August 27, 2026 opinion in No. 25-12314 is now available, and it is a reminder of how closely practitioners need to track appellate rulings for both doctrinal developments and procedural guidance. Because the docket entry provided here identifies the filing simply as “Opinion,” the most immediate takeaway for litigators is practical: review the full decision promptly to…
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Pablo Arredondo, the Casetext cofounder who helped build some of the earliest and most influential applications of AI in legal practice, is joining Clio as senior vice president, judiciary, where he will lead the company’s strategy for extending its technology into the courts. In this episode of LawNext, recorded just ahead of the announcement, Arredondo tells me why he is…
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The Tenth Circuit’s August 25, 2026 filing in Opinion, No. 25-6120, is now available on Docket Alarm: View full case on Docket Alarm.

At the moment, the public case details provided here identify the court, docket number, and filing date, but do not include the text of the opinion itself. That means practitioners should be careful not to…
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A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has dealt a significant setback to the Pentagon’s effort to sideline Anthropic from federal use, ruling that the government’s actions were “illegal and baseless” and temporarily blocking parts of the administration’s campaign against the AI company.

While the full factual record will matter as the case proceeds, the court’s language is notable. A finding…
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Every single day, trillions of dollars flow silently beneath the surface of the global economy—moving through governments, central banks, and massive financial institutions. But the underlying plumbing that governs these capital movements was built for a legacy era. 

  • What if we didn’t need to burn down the existing financial architecture to instantly make it verifiable, compliant, and hyper-efficient? 
  • What if

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Google LLC has filed a new inter partes review petition at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, docketed as IPR2026-00466 on August 28, 2026. At this early stage, the publicly available docket information identifies Google as the petitioner but does not yet provide a full picture of the challenged patent, the patent owner, or the specific prior-art grounds asserted. Even…
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Fast-growing UK private equity-backed law firm Orwins today (1 September) announced a significant investment into the Yorkshire law firm Milners and the acquisition of Roe Lawyers, a boutique criminal, white […]
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While attention focused on Meta’s $17 billion youth-safety settlement with state attorneys general, the agreement also includes a separate $459 million payment resolving a broad swath of state claims tied to the Cambridge Analytica data-privacy scandal.
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A new inter partes review proceeding has been filed at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board against Zoom Communications, Inc., opening another venue to watch for practitioners tracking software and communications-platform patent disputes. The petition, docketed as IPR2026-00461 and filed on August 24, 2026, places one of Zoom’s patents under PTAB scrutiny and may offer useful guidance on how challengers…
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U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate issued the temporary restraining order “on the basis of names that didn’t even exist and statements that didn’t even exist,” said Fifth Circuit Judge Jerry Smith. “Are you saying that we can be confident that that didn’t infect his ultimate reasoning?”
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I’ve read and seen a lot about all the money flowing into the legal tech space these days. I can remember when the big tech news was that some firm was thinking about going to the cloud. And now this.And despite that, I have to admit I was not prepared for what I saw at ILTACON 2026. The extravagence and…
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Apple has launched a new inter partes review at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, filing IPR2026-00445 on August 25, 2026. At this stage, the public docket identifies the petitioner as Apple Inc., but practitioners will want to watch closely for the petition and accompanying exhibits to clarify the specific patent being challenged, the real party-in-interest disclosures, and the precise…
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